found: Oxford music online, June 6, 2013:Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (Gore, Lesley; born Lesley Goldstein, May 2, 1946, New York City; raised in Tenafly, N.J.)

found: New York times (online), viewed Feb. 18, 2015(in obituary published Feb. 16: Lesley Gore; b. Lesley Sue Goldstein, May 2, 1946, Brooklyn; grew up in Tenafly, N.J.; d. Monday [Feb. 16, 2015], Manhattan, aged 68; was a teenager in the 1960s when she recorded hit songs about heartbreak and resilience that went on to become feminist touchstones)